Bright-line brown-eye: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the bright-line brown-eye lives – recorded in 18 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Lacanobia oleracea
Group	Butterflies & moths
Found in	18 countries
Continents	Europe
Diet (main food)	tomato
Class	Insect
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Noctuidae

Where does the bright-line brown-eye live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the bright-line brown-eye in 18 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What does a bright-line brown-eye eat?

Wikidata lists the main food source of the bright-line brown-eye as: tomato.

What kind of animal is the bright-line brown-eye?

The bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) is an insect in the order Lepidoptera and the family Noctuidae, genus Lacanobia. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the bright-line brown-eye

The bright-line brown-eye (Lacanobia oleracea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is a common species throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria), temperate North Asia and Central Asia, Asia Minor, Syria, and Turkestan, northern India, China, Korea and Japan.

This species' common name is usefully descriptive: The forewings are dark reddish brown marked with a prominent light orange-brown stigma and a bright white subterminal line. The hindwings are grey, darker towards the termen. The wingspan is 34–44 mm. They are attracted to light, sugar and nectar-rich flowers.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Bright-line brown-eye (revision 1306217441), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q769896 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).